Sentence examples for were confessed from inspiring English sources
verb
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
Details of the sins committed were confessed in secret to a priest, who then pronounced absolution and imposed an appropriate penance.
Middle-of-the-night calls were confessed to, and an intelligent attempt was made to contextualize the event in a longer global history of political tragedy and war conducted in urban streets.
Some of the new union leaders were confessed socialists, anxious to use political as well as economic power to secure their objectives, and a number of socialist organizations emerged between 1880 and 1900 all conscious, at least intermittently, that, whatever their differences, they were part of a "labour movement".
"I'm tired," she told me, as if she were confessing some secret.
Even stalwart defenders of laissez faire capitalism were confessing the error of their deregulatory ways.
That particle is the neutrino.Neutrinos, it must be confessed, are neglected for a reason.
"I didn't understand what it was," confessed one, who thought it must be his coursework.
Clergy child abuse, zealous violence, homophobia, anti-Semitism: they're all to be confessed, not excused.
All of our sins must be confessed, all of our personal failures and weaknesses are revealed.
"We're slow starters, and always have been," confessed Younis Khan afterwards.
